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Monday, June 15, 2009
Pyramid Hill Art Fair seeks exhibitors
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park is looking for artists, craftsmen and artisans of its seventh annual Art Fair at Pyramid Hill, Sept. 26-27.
Booth rentals range from $100 to $350.
Download an application here or call (513) 868-8336.
Deadline for application is July 15.
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Area artist debuts new medium at Village Green Art Fair, June 20
Fifth annual Village Green Arts Fair, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 20, Village Green Park and the Fairfield Community Arts Center. Free. (513) 967-5348.
Although Jenni Doerger won the People’s Choice Award at last year’s Village Green Arts Fair, she a little worried about what kind of reception she’ll get on Saturday when the fifth annual edition of the event takes place in Fairfield.
“I used to do painted pottery,” she said, “but I have an auto-immune illness and the pottery was causing me problems. So at the urging of my friends, I have shifted to painting on canvas.”
But last week, Doerger exhibited at her first all-painting show at the Trillium Art Fair at Glenwood Gardens, and so far so good.
“I still have the same whimsical style, a lot of bright colors and a little spiritual touch,” she said. “People told me how the paintings made them smile, which is the same thing they said about my pottery.”
Doerger said that she likes doing big canvases, and that she also has prints and stationery available.
“A lot of my work is done from stories that people have given me,” she said. One of her popular paintings, “The Connection,” which she sold last week, is based on story about a friend’s late mother and how whenever the family gathers, a white feather always seems to turn up.
“The mother’s name was Iris,” Doerger said, “so I painted a girl standing in a field of irises with a dove and a white feather flying overhead.”
About 55 artists have registered to show their unique creations at this Saturday’s event, a joint project of the city of Fairfield Parks and Recreation Department and Art on Symmes.
“It’s a good way for people to see that they can buy original works of art and support local artists without spending a fortune,” said Sherry Armstead, owner of Art on Symmes. “The work on display is all affordable and made in America.”
In addition to the artists’ booths set up around Village Green, there will be performances from the Miami Valley Ballet, Cincinnati Gymnastics and local singer/songwriter Gregory Albright in the Village Green Amphitheater. In the Community Arts Center Janice Trytten will play a large collection of her native flutes.
Children of all ages are also welcome to contribute to a large sidewalk chalk mural.
The juried event also has Best of Show and Honorable Mention awards given on the day of the show in Fine Art and Fine Crafts categories. Visitors will again be able to vote for the People’s Choice Award, which carries a $50 prize.
There will also be a recycled art competition, Armstead said.
“This is another unique way to show the public that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to have original works of art,” she said.
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Delta Kings present ‘Live in Cincinnati’, June 19-20
The Delta Kings present ““WBBS-TV Live in Cincinnati,” 8 p.m. Friday, June 19; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, June 20, Crawford Auditorium, Deer Park High School, 8351 Plainfield Rd. Cincinnati. $15. (888) 796-8555.
The Delta Kings Barbershop Chorus, under the direction of Hamilton resident Robert McFadden, performs its annual musical comedy this weekend at Deer Park High School.
“WBBS-TV Live in Cincinnati” is an original musical comedy by Delta Kings member Don Gaffney about a fictional television station on the verge of bankruptcy that tries returning to the live variety programming of the early TV days in the manner of Ruth Lyons and Paul Dixon.
The plot involves a number of comic characters, and since the Delta Kings is an all-male group, some of them play women as they make fun of real Cincinnati news makers and communities.
Because the station is so bad the audience is there as offenders serving their sentences.
“We identify the audience as ‘sinners,’ and a lot of the jokes are played to them,” Gaffney said.
The “studio band” is the Delta Kings Chorus members who “hocked their instruments in Las Vegas” to come home, Gaffney said. So the first number is “Jazz Song,” sung a capella and without words as the singers imitate instruments.
All music is sung by the chorus and quartets in the distinct barbershop four-part harmony. The program includes a performance by the quartet Berzerk from Sycamore High. a local high school quartet. The songs range from traditional barbershop tunes as “Alexander’s Rag Time Band” and novelty songs like “You’ll Never Find Sin in Cincinnati” to swing tunes like “I’ve Got a Crush On You” not normally associated with the barbershop style.
The Delta Kings Chorus is the singing unit of the non-profit Cincinnati Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, the nation’s largest men’s singing organization with affiliated barbershop harmony groups throughout the world. Founded in 1944, it is one of the earliest chapters in the national society.
It supports local community activities such as the Flying Pig Marathon and the March of Dimes Walkathon, is an organizer and sponsor of the annual Harmony Festival for high schoolers at Northern Kentucky University in June and competes with other barbershop choruses from three states.
Photos…. Top: “Doris Kay” (Dave Traut) flirts with Denny Daum of West Chester during rehearsal for the Delta Kings musical comedy “WBBS-TV Live in Cincinnati.” Bottom: Hamiltonians Dick Davis, Bob McFadden, (chorus director who plays band director Alexander in show) and Ted May (show chairman who plays newsman “Charlie Gypsum” in show) join “Doris Kay” (Dave Traut) during a rehearsal for the Delta Kings Chorus musical comedy.
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HFSO plays rainy Pyramid Hill… Oxford Parks next…
Afternoon thunderstorms kept the big crowd away, but the die-hards who attended the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra’s Picnic and Pops concert Sunday at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park were treated to an evening of good music.
Those who let a little rain keep them at home has a second chance on Thursday when the HFSO plays the Oxford Music Festival, 7:30 p.m. in the Uptown Parks.
For information, call (513) 895-5151.
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